Charitable Computing Ministry A local lay organization with a mission to provide free computers to charities of Warren County and the communities surrounding St. Susanna Parish of Mason, Ohio. Staffed by volunteers from that area, we deliver a spirit of justice and charity in four ways:

We take in usable but unwanted computers as donations. This is a very responsible way of re-purposing unwanted electronics and prevents them from becoming part of our land fills. It helps to protect our environment and we provide receipts to evidence donations.

Computers typically contain personal information that should be properly removed from the hard drives. Simply erasing files is not enough so we use DBAN software that applies a Department of Defense protocol to make the disk clean secure. This protocol writes various characters over the entire disk space, three times. This service “gives back” to donors by providing a valued service that usually takes from 4 to 12 hours to accomplish.

After disks are clean, we then load publicly available, free operating system and applications software. It is Linux based system - the Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium enabling collaboration and innovation through an open source development model. There is a vast amount of free software that runs on this very efficient code, making it perfect for older computers and being free it is a great choice for charitable use.

The re-purposed computers, loaded with office and Internet access software, are then donated to 501(c) charities in our area. The computers can be used in the charity for their internal needs or they can be part of their teaching and empowering individuals or families to use information technology to advance their circumstances and then gift the computers to these patrons for their everyday use.

Donations and Financial Assistance If you have computers (laptop or desktop) that you don’t need any longer please give us your contact information (address, phone number and time to call) by:

We will call to arrange a convenient time for our volunteer to pickup the equipment. Also needed are accessories like LED monitors, keyboards, mice, or mice pads. No CRTs or printers at this time. For any cash donations to support working capital needs for this Ministry, please contact Mary Jo Burns at St. Susanna Church, 398-3821 ext. 3120 or burnsmj@stsusanna.org.